Glorious Good-Wood is Tree-mendous

A dazzling dozen runners smashed a 5k run to the St Werburghs Community Centre to help out at a volunteer day to continue to develop the outside area around the centre

Great to have Hannah along today for her first Bristol run, having been a regular with the Hackney group before moving to our fair city last year. Also good to see Declan with us again after a little break. Hope you both enjoyed being back with the GoodGym gang.

It was all going on today and there was pretty much something for everyone as we were welcomed at the community centre by the lovely Goska who had prepared a list of tasks for us to get stuck into.

One group got straight into shifting two planting boxes which involved moving a lot of the soil within the boxes until they were just about light enough to be dragged across the ground to new homes where they were refilled.

Another were moving picnic tables - we were hoping to build some but the bolts had done a runner (maybe they had bolted?) and so this was not possible.

Hannah and Charlene were moving unwanted rubbish into a skip and were then joined by the picnic table shifters to lift some really heavy garden bags into the skip, with a combined heave and roll action.

With the planting boxes in place, it was time to lug some timber blocks over to build a wooden wall around them, although we were tempted to have a game of giant jenga with these! Nick and Sarah also managed to put some of the larger timber into exercise use to perform some pretty impressive squats.

During this, Deb and Declan got on with watering the plants around the front of the centre, whilst Hannah and Charlene moved onto weeding the area and David tackled an overgrown bush on the roadside.

With a quick sweep up and group photos, we were back on our way to Roll For The Soul where we stretched lower and upper body, all of which had been put to good use today before half the group settled down to a very well earned lunch and some of the others headed of to do some more good on an afternoon mission, including Sarah and Charlene who were doing their first GG mission.

We should hopefully be back at the centre in a couple of weeks to help them prepare for an open day with food and festivities with an option, for those who want to, to stay and enjoy the event.

This was a great task today and really demonstrated GoodGym at it's brilliant best - nice one everyone!